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The climate and environment in the south are more suitable for agricultural development.

In addition, since the end of the Tang Dynasty, wars have been frequent in the north, while the south has been relatively stable, providing a relatively stable social environment for economic development.

In addition, most of the territory ruled by the Northern Song Dynasty was in the south.

In addition, a large number of people in the north have moved south due to war, difficult living environment, and so on.

Therefore, the economic center of gravity of the Northern Song Dynasty has long been shifted to the south.

It is no exaggeration to say that if there was no economic support from the south, according to Zhao Ji's defeat, the Northern Song Dynasty would have perished long ago.

The sudden rise of the Fangla Rebellion cut off the economic lifeline of the Northern Song Dynasty.

In other words, the money is gone.

This kind of thing can be hidden for a while, but it will never be hidden for too long.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for Wang Hao to keep blocking the news of Fangla's uprising.

Therefore, seeing that things were not good, Wang Huang hurriedly took the initiative to report the Fangla uprising to Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji, who was dreaming of recovering Yanyun, finally learned about this thunderbolt on a sunny day.

Zhao Ji was terrified, and hurriedly summoned all his cronies and courtiers to discuss countermeasures, and Cai Ying, who was deeply loved and trusted by Zhao Ji recently, was also recruited by Zhao Ji.

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Wang Hao, Tong Guan, Gao Yu, Deng Xunwu, Zheng Zhongju, Cai You, Li Bangyan, Bai Shizhong, Zhang Bangchang, Xue Ang, Tan Zhi, Liang Fangping, Lin Ji, Cai Yi, Wu Min, Mei Zhili, and a large number of high-ranking officials of the Northern Song Dynasty, all stood around a detailed map of the southeast with heavy faces, watching Zhang Yuan explain to them the general situation of the Fangla Righteous Army.

Zhang Yuan obviously did his homework, and he gave a general idea of the distribution of the million-strong army of Fang La's righteous army.

After Zhang Yuan finished speaking, Zhang Bangchang said: "Million? Isn't that an exaggeration? ”

Zhang Yuan explained: "This number is not exaggerated, the rebel Fang La, ascended to the rebellion, more than 100,000 people gathered around him within half a month, after a little reorganization and hasty training, Fang La immediately took these hundreds of thousands of rebels to the north, all the way to the state and the government, attacking the city and pulling out the village, and soon conquered the southeast town - Hangzhou, and then he had three or four hundred thousand rebels in his hands, claiming a million army, the southeast mob saw that Fang La was powerful, Dieke was an important town, and the four sides were shocked, and they jumped up and rebelled, Suzhou Shisheng gathered more than 100,000 mobs, 300,000 were declared to the outside world, Lu Xing'er in Gui'an County, Huzhou gathered 780,000 mobs and claimed 500,000 to the outside world, Zhu Yan and Wu Bang in Lingshan Tong in Lanxi County, Wuzhou gathered about 50,000 mobs and claimed 300,000 to the outside world, Chen Shishi in Fangyanshan 14 in Yongkang County gathered about 30,000 mobs and claimed 100,000 to the outside world, Huo Chengfu and Chen Hoop in Jinyun County, Chuzhou gathered more than 100,000 people and claimed 300,000 to the outside world, Lu Shisang in Xianju County, Taizhou gathered 450,000 people and claimed 500,000 to the outside world, and the enemies of Yue County gathered less than 20,000 mobs and claimed 200,000 to the outside world. Quzhou Zheng Demon King and others gathered 50,000 mobs and claimed 500,000 to the outside world, even if the news I got was somewhat untrue, the people who rioted would only be more than one million, and never less than one million. ”

After a pause, Zhang Yuan said again: "Moreover, the news I got was half a month ago, the strength of the rebels will increase dramatically every day, sometimes one of them can increase by tens of thousands a day, half a month has passed, and now there are twenty thousand. ”

"Two million?"

Everyone was frightened by the numbers Zhang Yuan said.

You must know that all the armies of the Northern Song Dynasty together are only worth more than one million, and they are scattered all over the country, and Fang La actually gathered two million people, what is this concept? This is to overthrow the rule of Zhao Song!

At the critical moment, Tong Guan, who has been in the war for a long time, is calm and calm.

Seeing that everyone was frightened by the size of Fang La's righteous army, he snorted heavily and said, "What about two million? A group of farmers with hoes without any military training. ”

Tong Guan's words made everyone wake up: "Yes, two million civilians who have not undergone any military training and are not fully armoured, what is there to be afraid of?" ”

But—

Although Tong Guan shook the scene, everyone was still shocked by the number of two million!

Among them, Zhao Ji was the most shocked!

For a long time, in Zhao Ji's imagination, the Great Song Dynasty under his governance was the peace of the country and the people, the peace of the four seas, and the promotion of singing and dancing.

But why was there a Songjiang rebellion first, and then a Fangla rebellion?

Zhao Ji didn't need to hide his own incomprehension and anger, so he said directly: "When Song Jiang rebelled, you said that the mob was greedy and didn't know how to be grateful, so they gathered people to rebel, and now Fang La rebelled again, and it has grown to one or two million people in ten months. ”

Everyone heard the anger in Zhao Ji's words, but no one picked up Zhao Ji's words.

Seeing this, Zhao Ji was even more angry, and he said, "What, are they all dumb?" ”

Mei Zhili had heard Zhang Yuan report to Wang Huang about the Fangla uprising two months ago, but just now Zhao Ji said that between the tenth month (that is, fifteen to thirty days), this is undoubtedly Wang Huang dared to hide something from Zhao Ji.

Mei Zhili believes that Wang Huang is misleading the country, this is endangering the rule of the Great Song Dynasty, and the growth of the Fang La Righteous Army to this extent is directly related to Wang Huang, and Wang Huang is not worthy of being the ruler.

Therefore, Mei Zhili stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the minister has something to do." ”

Zhao Ji looked at Mei Zhili and asked, "Aiqing wants to tell me, is this why?" ”

Mei Zhili said: "For the rebellion of Fang La, the minister is not very clear, the minister just heard that the origin of the flower stone gang, the origin of the bureau, the origin of Zhu Mian's father and son, however, the minister has not investigated this matter, so he knows no details, and then dare not say that the minister is not this matter, but the minister has personally heard the punishment of Zhexi to Dazai two months ago to report the rebellion of Fang La, and Dazai told the official family that the rebellion of Fang La occurred between the months and months, it is really deliberately concealed, Fang La's gang has grown to one million, and Dazai is inseparable. ”

What Mei Zhili didn't expect was that Wang Hao was not afraid of his participation at all.

What Mei Zhili didn't expect was that after Zhang Yuan listened to his participation, he was very emotional and said: "Your Majesty, Mei Shilang slandered the minister, the minister has been collecting the movements and intelligence of Fang La's rebels in the southeast recently, and he has never returned to Beijing at all, how can he report the Fang La rebellion to Dazai two months ago?" As for the month of October, it was also what the minister said to His Majesty, not what Dazai said, the original words of the minister to His Majesty were that the rebels fought all the way from Qingxi County to Hangzhou to capture Hangzhou City during the month of October, and as for when Fang La rebelled before, the minister didn't know, so he didn't dare to say nonsense. ”

Mei Zhili underestimated Wang Huang again.

That's right.

In order to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, Wang Hao temporarily suppressed the Fangla uprising.

But this is not to say that Wang Hao does not care about the Fang La uprising.

On the contrary, Wang Hao cared more about the Fangla uprising than anyone else.

For this reason, Wang Hao even sent Zhang Yuan to the southeast to inquire about the Fangla uprising.

It wasn't until Wang Hao thought that Fang La's uprising was completely out of control and could no longer let Fang La continue to grow bigger in order to recover Yanyun, that Wang Hao summoned Zhang Yuan back and reported the Fang La uprising to Zhao Ji.

But—

Although Wang Huang reported it.

But as a shrewd politician, Wang Hao didn't say anything, but let Zhang Yuan say it.

And Zhang Yuan is Wang Hao's person, how can he put Wang Hao inside?

Therefore, Mei Zhili wants to rely on this trivial matter to bring down Wang Huang, which is tantamount to a fool's dream.

Really!

Without Wang Hao's clarification, Zhao Ji himself said: "This matter has nothing to do with Wang Aiqing, the first time Zhang Yuan came back from the southeast, Wang Aiqing brought Zhang Yuan to see me, it was Zhang Yuan who told me about the Fangla rebellion, which had nothing to do with Wang Aiqing. ”

Mei Zhili is not the first day of officialdom, so as soon as he saw Zhao Ji come out to speak for Wang Huang, Mei Zhili knew that something was wrong.

Ke Mei is a straight person, he has always been upright and strict and does not avoid the powerful, how can he retire from the night?

Mei bowed to the ground and said, "Your Majesty, if the minister has half a lie, he is willing to ......."

Zhao Ji summed up Mei Zhili's "framing" of Wang Huang as a party dispute.

This kind of thing has happened almost every day in the more than 20 years that Zhao Ji has been in power, and it is nothing to make up some nonsense to frame the other party, and sometimes the ministers of the two factions will even fight in court.

Zhao Ji is fed up with these party struggles, and at the same time, there is no way to take these party disputes!

In this way, Zhao Ji can only fight with the mud when the party is fighting.

It is precisely because of this that seeing that the party dispute is about to happen again, Zhao Ji, who was upset because of Fang La's uprising, directly interrupted Mei Zhili and said: "Okay, okay, don't say it again, the top priority now is to find the reason for the rebellion of Fang La's gang of rebels and why Fang La's group of rebels gathered as soon as they rebelled, and how to solve Fang La's gang of rebels, rather than investigating when Fang La's gang of rebels rebelled." ”

Mei Zhili thought to himself, since he had already revealed the bottom of Wang Huang, he must bring down Wang Huang, so he did not forgive: "Your Majesty, this is not when Fang La's group of rebels rebelled, but that Dazai, as Zaifu, concealed such a major incident and did not report it, misleading the country and His Majesty!" ”

Seeing that Mei Zhili was endless, Zhao Ji, who was in a state of confusion, couldn't control it anymore, and said sharply: "Get out of here!" ”

Mei Zhili wanted to fight again, and immediately a court guard "invited" Mei Zhili out.

In this regard, no one looked at Mei Zhili more.

Vainly trying to bring down the holy family is the Dazai of the dynasty with his own strength, isn't this a fool's dream!

Only Cai Ying, who was in the corner, glanced at Mei Zhili with some regret!

After the shame of Jingkang happened, Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan and his son were detained in the Jin camp by the Jin people, Mei Zhili tried to no avail, and went home and said to his mother: "The lord humiliated the ministers to death, what are you doing alive?" His mother also understood the righteousness and said: "Loyalty and filial piety are difficult to achieve, you are so favored by the country, you should report it wholeheartedly, don't think of the elderly." So Mei Zhili asked his brothers to support his parents, resolutely discussed with the generals, planned to attack the enemy at night to rescue Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan and others, and then used the gift to secretly contact the military and civilians with the generals Wu Ge and Zhao Zifang of the clan, and obtained more than 100,000 people in a few days.

Although in the end, Mei Zhili and the others' rescue plan failed due to Fan Qiong's obstruction, but when no one from the emperor Zhao Huan or below dared to stand up and resist, he dared to put life and death aside and plan such a major event under the nose of the Jin people, and he was by no means a loyal and courageous husband.

Looking at Mei Zhili's unwilling back, Cai still thought silently: "It's a pity that you met a faint monarch like the Zhao family's father and son, who didn't know how to treasure, so that you couldn't be famous for ......eternity."

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